Give Peace a Chance

Echoes of the 2000s Democrats in the "Republican civil war."

The "Republican civil war" has been a favorite media story line of the Obama years, but lately it's become hard to sustain. Now John Dickerson, who covers politics for both CBS News and Slate.com, is asking: "Why Is the GOP's Civil War So Civil?"

"At least on the Senate battlefield," Dickerson writes, "the much-anticipated and contentious intraparty fights are not happening." That's in contrast with 2010, when Tea Party candidates in Colorado, Delaware and Nevada lost what were...